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Amazon today launched a new web service – EBS, the Elastic Block Store (yes I also first read it as ‘Elastic Book Store’) for EC2. EBS provides persistent storage for EC2 computing instances, and the ...

AWS EBS – Elastic Block Storage – customers usually massively over-provision cloud storage capacity and pay way more than they should. Capacity utilisation on EBS is between 10% and 30%, according to ...

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Amazon said Thursday that its Elastic Block Store feature is now available to all of its EC2 Web service customers. The move gives Amazon Web Services a full storage suite delivered as a service. EC2 ...

This whitepaper focuses on the reduction of EBS storage footprint. We start by clarifying the reasons for the rapid growth of data and subsequent rapid rise in storage, explain how this affects ...

Object storage software startup Scality introduced version 5.0 of its RING software for software-defined storage at VMworld yesterday. The software has been given a number of enhancements, with ...

After lightning downed parts of Amazon's European cloud over the weekend, a fault appeared in the company's storage software that caused the system to accidentally delete customer data. The software ...

2 December 2019 - The first electrons have been injected in the new ESRF Extremely Brilliant Source storage ring according to schedule. This is an important milestone on the way to opening to the ...

If you want inspiration for a hyperscale, resilient distributed block storage service, apparently a jellyfish is a good place to start looking for architectural features. That is precisely what Amazon ...